The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-09-29

in the second round. In the third round
| Duffy got a crack in the nose which started
| the claret. First blood was allowed for
! Watson Cautious fighting followed until
| the seventh round, when Duffy caught an
upper cut from Watson's right that lifted
him off his feet and laid him against the
ropes He recovered in fine shape, however,
and sent Watson to his knees with blow
under the right ear When Duffy went to
his corner after the round, Murphy, his
second, washed the blood from his face and
| sent him up in clean shape. Weak fighting
| followed until the twelfth round, when
| Duffy forced Watson to his corner, where
he dealt him two heavy blows on the nose
Watson replied with swinging right
handler, which split Duffy's lip and sent a
stream of blood running down his neck and
bosom.
When the men came up in the thirteenth
round they presented battered appear
ance. Dufy,s breast and arms were
smeared with blood and his mouth looked as
though it ran from ear to ear. Watson was
bleeding freely, too, but he appeared to
have better wind The betting was now in
favor of Watson, but the friends of the
Ohio lad were not slow in covering all good
odds In the fourteenth round Duffy broke
a small bone in his right wrist in attempt
ing to reach Watson's jugular, but be con
tinued to fight, despite the pain his injury
gave him. In the fifteenth round Watson
broke Duffy's nose with a swinging let
handler, and followed it up with rafting
blow on the neck. For a moment the Ohio
boy wavered, but the calling of time gave
him a chance to get his wind. Terrific
smuggling followed until the twentieth round,
Duffy directing his attention to his oppo'
nents bellows, and Watson dealing blow
after blow upon the Ohioans broken nose
a a faces M tiphtarS
completely plastered with gore, and Duffy's
upper lip. which had been split nearly to
his broken nose, hung upon his chin.
AS it was now after o'clock lamps were
extinguished, the doors thrown open and
the fight continued by daylight. Duffy's
terrific body blows in the twentieth, twenty
ty-first, twenty second and twenty third
rounds had a demoralizing effect on Wat
son. He began to blow in an ominous man
ner, and great Jumps and welts appeared on
his breast. The terrific work of the Ohioan
was loudly cheered, and even money was
offered and covered that he would yet knock
out the Chicagoan In the twenty-fourth
round Watson sent his left against Duffy
right eye, and moment later it was sound
asleep. Both men spared for wind in the
twenty fifth, twenty sixth, twenty seventh
and twenty eighth rounds, but in the TWEEN
ty-ninth Duffy renewed his attack on Wat
son struck Duffy in the mouth with his
left and caught hard one on
the body in return. The thirty-first,
thirty second, thirty third, thirty fourth,
thirty fifth and thirty sixth rounds were of
the hammer and tongs order, each man try
ing to get in Knockout blow. Watson
came near going down three times in these
rounds under the catapult blows of the
Buckeye boy, but managed to pull himself
together before his opponent could follow
up his advantage. The broken nose came
in for more Punishment during these rounds,
and once the Chicago boy reached for and
caught Duffys only clean eye In the
twenty seventh round Duffy sent Watson to
the ropes with a ringing left-hander, but
caught a solid blow in the mouth in return.
A clinch followed and continued until time
was called.
In the forty-fourth round the men were so
clearly exhausted that the referee called the
fight a draw, The contest lasted two hours
and fourteen minutes. Both pugilsts We're
so badly punished that it will be several
days before they will feel like ordinary
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